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IiA- SCEUR ROSALIE, 233
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neighbourhood . " The open school , on the other hand , by developing * the general intelligence of the scholars , elevates them as a whole ,
without separating * them from their fellows . Neither did Soeur Rosalie like her _yoimg female pupils to begin their working * career
under more favorable conditions than their after-life would insure . Bare rooms and hard beds , coarse food and household duties ,
these are tlie inevitable lot of the young * workwoman at home ; as an apprentice , she has to learn by inevitable friction with the
characters of others , hy the exactions of those in authority , and by the faults of her equals and companions . It is in such experience that
wished a truly to noble accept character this natural is providentiall discipline y developed for all her , and young she therefore charges ,
while she devised some means by which their connection with the Sisters should not be violently snapped when they quitted the school .
The plan which she rapidly conceived and carried into effect _"with her accustomed energy and decision was admirably adapted to meet
her ends . _" It is a g _* ood work , " said she , the first time the project w was ill discussed begin next with Sunday others . , ' " God During will tlie cause whole it to of succeed that week , and she we
worked for the success of her scheme . Slie persuaded the mistresses of the workshops that " La Patronage " would make their
apprentices industrious and obedient , she made the mothers understand her that winning it would voice be a great which hel never p to their made daug itself hters heard ' career in vain in , life induced , and
, several ladies to enter into her wishes and to promise their attendance .
On the Sunday , a great number of young * girls were by these means brought together at the Maison de la Hue de _l'Epee-de-Bois ;
papers were given to them on which their mistresses were to note down their general conduct , and whether they were industrious . The
ladies who had come to meet them made the acquaintance of each individually , by the special introduction of La Soeur Rosalie ; took
down their addresses , promised to visit their workshops , and to _give them rewards at the end of tlie half year if they were deserved ; and
then they all mingled together in kindly intercourse , and sang * hymns with the Sisters ; and the Patronage was fairly started .
This example of the system ., begun in tlie poorest of quarters , and under the least favorable of conditions , triumphed over all objections
and hesitations . It was capable of being * generally followed : the impulsion , once given by La Soeur Rosalie , spread on all sides , and
was carried out in numerous parishes , to the benefit of inany companies of young girls . Nor was this all ; the apprentices
made an active union among * themselves , to search for , and bring back to the foldany companions of their school-days who had been
, led astray ; and brought in every Sunday stray lambs of the flock . As they grew older , and themselves became thoroughly instructed
workwomen , and sometimes mistresses , La Soeur gathered the "best of them into an association , which she christened " Du Bon-Conseil , _"
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Iia- Sceur Rosalie, 233
IiA- SCEUR ROSALIE , 233
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 233, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/17/
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